Re: .odt - .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/09/2011 05:27 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Hi, I need to convert a paper from .odt to .lyx for building an extended version (exact style unimportant -- I'll have to change the style anyway, but there are pictures and references [xrefs to numbered bullets] which I'd be happy to

Re: .odt - .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Tomaso, You may be able to modify this to suit your purposes. http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import You obviously wouldn't need to mess about with the Word step, but the script might be useful for converting from ODF to LaTeX? There are links to the other tools as

Re: .odt - .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
I have very good experiences, with exporting from NeoOffice using the Write2LaTeX UltraClean option, then removing a few unnecessary things, can be done by (perl) script and then tex2lyx'ing it. el On 3/9/11 3:04 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 03/09/2011 05:27 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Hi, I

Re: .odt - .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Tommaso, Sorry to hear about the difficulties. I actually had better luck creating my own import path. ODF - HTML - Run tidy on HTML - HTML2LaTeX- LyX This made sure that the markup coming into LyX was as clean as possible with no strange ERT or other data that couldn't be converted. I

Re: .odt - .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/09/2011 05:27 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Hi, I need to convert a paper from .odt to .lyx for building an extended version (exact style unimportant -- I'll have to change the style anyway, but there are pictures and references [xrefs to numbered bullets] which I'd be happy to

Re: .odt - .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Tomaso, You may be able to modify this to suit your purposes. http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import You obviously wouldn't need to mess about with the Word step, but the script might be useful for converting from ODF to LaTeX? There are links to the other tools as

Re: .odt - .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
I have very good experiences, with exporting from NeoOffice using the Write2LaTeX UltraClean option, then removing a few unnecessary things, can be done by (perl) script and then tex2lyx'ing it. el On 3/9/11 3:04 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 03/09/2011 05:27 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Hi, I

Re: .odt - .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Tommaso, Sorry to hear about the difficulties. I actually had better luck creating my own import path. ODF - HTML - Run tidy on HTML - HTML2LaTeX- LyX This made sure that the markup coming into LyX was as clean as possible with no strange ERT or other data that couldn't be converted. I

Re: .odt -> .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/09/2011 05:27 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Hi, I need to convert a paper from .odt to .lyx for building an extended version (exact style unimportant -- I'll have to change the style anyway, but there are pictures and references [xrefs to numbered bullets] which I'd be happy to

Re: .odt -> .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Tomaso, You may be able to modify this to suit your purposes. http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import You obviously wouldn't need to mess about with the Word step, but the script might be useful for converting from ODF to LaTeX? There are links to the other tools as

Re: .odt -> .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
I have very good experiences, with exporting from NeoOffice using the Write2LaTeX UltraClean option, then removing a few unnecessary things, can be done by (perl) script and then tex2lyx'ing it. el On 3/9/11 3:04 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 03/09/2011 05:27 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: >> Hi,

Re: .odt -> .lyx

2011-03-09 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Tommaso, Sorry to hear about the difficulties. I actually had better luck creating my own import path. ODF -> HTML -> Run tidy on HTML -> HTML2LaTeX-> LyX This made sure that the markup coming into LyX was as clean as possible with no strange ERT or other data that couldn't be converted. I